Sightings March 2008
This table below lists the sightings of birds in Ayrshire over this month compiled from various sources. This is principally for a historical record and does not imply that a particular sightings has been accepted by the relevant authorities. The Ayrshire Species List indicates which species requires submission of a sightings form to be considered by the relevant committee. The list of this month's contributors is given at the foot of the table.
For details on many of the locations mentioned in the sightings please refer to our Where to Watch Birds in Ayrshire guides.
List compiled by Mike Howes and edited by Kevin Waite
Long Stayers
| Dates | Location | Sighting |
|---|---|---|
| All | Rozelle Park Ayr | Pair Nuthatches |
| Martnaham Loch | Single Barnacle Goose | |
| Auchenharvie | Up To 132 Scaup | |
| Maidens | 7 Pale-bellied Brent Geese | |
| Troon | 2 Long-tailed Duck | |
| 1 t0 18 | Loch Fergus | Up To 33 Whooper Swans |
| 1 to 21 | Seamill | Black Redstart |
| 5 to 31 | Doonfoot | Water Pipit |
| 11 to 13 | Troon | Drake King Eider |
| 16 to 17 | Rozelle Park Ayr | Drake Pintail |
| 2, 19 to 23 | Lochlea | 2 Barnacle Geese |
| 28 to 31 | Girvan | Drake King Eider |
Other Sightings
| Dates | Location | Sighting |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Coylton | 29 Whooper Swans |
| Blairbowie | 3 Whooper Swans | |
| Irvine | Lesser Whitethroat | |
| Seamill | 2 Black-throated Divers, Jack Snipe | |
| 2 | Lochlea | 2 Greenland White-fronted Geese, Greylag Geese |
| Stinchar Bridge | 5-6 Crossbills | |
| 3 | Ayr | Adult Iceland Gull |
| Cumnock | 11 Siskins | |
| 4 | Ayr | Adult Iceland Gull |
| Stinchar Falls | 15 Crossbills, 25 Siskins | |
| Cumnock | 3 Brambling | |
| 7 | Coalhall | Red Kite |
| 8 | Culzean | Drake Mandarin Duck |
| 9 | Culzean | Nuthatch |
| 10 | Dundonald Camp | 25 Golden Plover |
| Drybridge | 16 Whooper Swans | |
| 12 | Blairbowie | 8 Whooper Swans, Pair Black-tailed Godwits |
| 13 | Loans | Juvenile Iceland Gull |
| Annbank | Pair Goosander | |
| 14 | Garnock Floods | Female Shoveler |
| 15 | Troon | 26 Black Guillemots |
| Ardeer Recreation Pond | Drake Gadwall | |
| 16 | Stinchar Bridge | Sand Martin |
| Garnock Estuary | 3 Gadwall | |
| Ardeer Quarry | 5 Whooper Swans North | |
| 17 | Ochiltree | 254 Pink-footed Geese north |
| Troon | Female Velvet Scoter | |
| Doonfoot | Bar-tailed Godwit, Greeenshank | |
| 18 | Dipple | 3 Black-throated Divers, 2 Great Northern Divers |
| Troon | 5 Red-throated Divers, 84 Greylag Geese North | |
| 19 | Martnaham Loch | Sand Martin |
| Shewalton Sp | Juvenile Iceland Gull | |
| Lochlea | 436 Greylag Geese, 67 Pink-footed Geese | |
| 22 | Troon | Juvenile Glaucous Gull |
| 23 | Irvine | Whimbrel, 12 Common Scoter |
| 24 | Capringstone Flash | Iceland Gull |
| 25 | Capringstone Flash | 4 Shoveler, Wigeon, Teal |
| Loans | 41 Greylag Geese | |
| 27 | Powburn | Wheatear |
| Girvan | Kingfisher | |
| 28 | Girvan | 7 Black-throated Divers |
| Maidens | Wheatear, 1 Black-throated Diver | |
| Coylton | Red Kite, 350 Greylag Geese | |
| Troon | Chiffchaff | |
| Rozelle Park Ayr | Chiffchaff | |
| 29 | Girvan | Black-throated Diver |
| 30 | Blairbowie | 571 Greylag Geese, 7 Barnacle Geese |
| Doonfoot | 1st Winter Iceland Gull | |
| Maidens | 1 Black-tailed Godwit, 2 White Wagtails | |
| Dunure | Wheatear | |
| Girvan | Sandwich Tern | |
| Loch Nahinie | Merlin | |
| 31 | Troon | 1 Common Scoter south, 21 Hooper Swans north |
| Ochiltree | 40 Pink-footed Geese north-east. | |
| Dean Park Kilmarnock | Male Wood Duck | |
| Greenan | Sandwich Tern | |
| Stevenston Point | 3 Sandwich Terns |
Acknowledgements
K Waite, I Hamlin, A Hogg, J Thomson, M Howes, J McGrady, J Johnstone, J Towill, M McGinty, J Woods, G McAdam, C Kerr, D Vernon, B Kerr, S McMahon, F Simpson, P McEwan, V Firminger, Ayrshire Birding, Birdline Scotland, Bird Guides.
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